I've eventually got round to sorting out the battery terminals on the XM (non XM owners will be saying "Battery terminals???? whats the problem?" but of course, this is a citroen XM so of course there is a fecking problem!) The car is now back on the road and behaving reasonably well albeit with slightlu creaky radius arms at the back (that'll be a fun job' However, another electrical problem as reared its head, I have placed this on the XM Forum but thought I'd might as well ask here as well given the XM following - Stereo is totally dead - fuse number 5 is ok - no problems and current across the terminals (it also powers other things all of which are working) so - is there another fuse protecting the radio lurking in the spaghetti that is the loom and where is it likely to be located? cheers